Ockenden grew up in Looe, Cornwall. He left school at the age of 16 to become a baker. After working in hotels in Sweden and Germany for a year, he returned to the UK to work as a pastry chef at the Hilton Hotel on London's Park Lane. He studied performing arts at the College of Further Education , Plymouth. He then received a scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , where he completed a three-year acting course and graduated in 2003.
Ockenden appeared in the British-Australian drama series Tripping Over and played a carpenter named Callum . He dubbed and impersonated FBI agent Norman Jayden in Heavy Rain . Before the show was canceled in 2015, he was a regular on the UK drama series Waterloo Road , in which he played the role of Hector Reid , a fun and sometimes vitriolic physical education teacher.
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Ockenden married the actress Vanessa Hehir on October 24, 2010 . You have a daughter.
